"series of Toyota commercials in the late 1990s. The song's title is mentioned in the hit song by Sly and the Family Stone's ""Thank You (For Lettin Me Be Myself Again)"" in the third verse, along with their other hit ""Dance to the Music"". Soul singer Billy Paul covered the song on his 1970 album ""Ebony Woman"". Joan Jett's version appears on her 1983 release ""Album"". ""Everyday People"" by Ta Mara and the Seen was a minor hit in the Philippines in 1988. Aretha Franklin performed a version of the song for her 1991 album ""What You See Is What"
"Everyday People (band) Everyday People was a funk musical group formed in England who recorded one album and had success with a few singles across Europe. Everyday People were formed in 1990 by vocalist Desi Campbell, bassist Shaun Ward and guitarist Lloyd Richards. Both Campbell and Ward had been members of Floy Joy at different times to one another in the 1980s. After the commercial failure of the 1986 album ""Weak in the Presence of Beauty"", which involved Campbell, Floy Joy disbanded. In the mid-to-late 1980s, Campbell had moved to Los Angeles and Ward moved to New York's club land."
"When both returned to Yorkshire, they decided to form Everyday People in 1990 with local guitarist Lloyd Richards. The newly established record label SBK Records signed the band, and they soon won the Radio One UK battle of the bands competition, and also went to Japan to play in the international finals at the famous Budokan. For their debut album, the band worked with producer Stewart Levine. In a 1990 interview with the group, Campbell noted ""We'd had enough experience with producers and would really have preferred to do it ourselves. But Stewart didn't want to change a thing. He"
"McPhatter, Arthur Prysock, Jimmy Scott recorded several more times in his career, Kay Starr, Dakota Staton, Betty Carter, Nancy Wilson and Dinah Washington. In the US, ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" was intended to serve as the B-side for the track ""Jealous of You (Tango Della Gelosia)"", which like Francis's precedent A-side hit ""Mama"" was a ballad of Italian origin. However, most American radio stations preferred to play ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" and, while ""Jealous of You"" did reach No. 19, ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" reached No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on 27 June 1960 and remained there the following week. The"
"stars who died during the 1960s included A.P. Carter, Gid Tanner, Moon Mullican, Ernest ""Pop"" Stoneman, Red Foley, Leon Payne and Spade Cooley. The 1960s began a trend toward a proliferation of No. 1 hits on the ""Billboard"" Hot Country Singles chart, thanks to ever-changing data collecting methods. When the 1960s decade opened, there were but four No. 1 songs topping the chart (five, if one counts Marty Robbins' ""El Paso""), but by the mid-1960s, there were always at least a dozen songs topping the chart annually. In 1967, there were more than 20 songs reaching the top spot for"
"one #1 Billboard Hot 100 hit with ""Strangers in the Night"" in 1966. Frankie Valli (who was portrayed in the play Jersey Boys) had 7 #1 Hot 100 hits in the 1960s and 1970s, including ""December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"". Kool & the Gang had a #1 Hot 100 hit with ""Celebration"" in 1981. Bon Jovi had 4 #1 Hot 100 hits, including ""Living on a Prayer"" in 1987. Whitney Houston (d. 2012) had 11 #1 Hot 100 hits in the 1980s and 1990s, including ""I Will Always Love You"" in 1992. P.M. Dawn had one #1 hit with"
"from #1 Country) and peaking at number fifteen. ""Nobody"" spent 20 weeks on the chart; earned a gold record; and was a Top Five Adult Contemporary hit. The song turned young Sylvia into a star on both sides of the charts. Although she gained Country Pop success with ""Nobody"", she never achieved another crossover hit, or for that matter, another #1 hit. She would, however, go on to score 6 additional top 10 hits (11 total) on the country chart. The song became Sylvia's signature song and got her nominated for a Grammy award in 1983 for ""Best Female Country"
"whole song. ""Handy Man"" reached No. 3 on the R&B charts and No. 2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in 1960, becoming a million seller. On Leap Day 1960, ""Handy Man"" became the first of five consecutive Hot 100 runners-up that Percy Faith's ""Theme from A Summer Place"" kept out of the top spot, the others being Jim Reeves' ""He'll Have to Go"", Bobby Rydell's ""Wild One"", Paul Anka's ""Puppy Love"", The Brothers Four's ""Green Fields"". The song was a hit, again, in 1964, reaching No. 22, for Del Shannon, and again for James Taylor, whose slow version was a"
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"and directed by Syd Macartney, told the story of how the (purported) narrator, songwriter Sharon Sheeley, attracted Eddie Cochran by wearing said jeans. The song was re-released as a promotional single that year. C'mon Everybody ""C'mon Everybody"" is a 1958 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart, originally released as a B-side. In 1959 it peaked in the UK (where Cochran had major success and where he died in 1960) at number six in the singles chart, and, thirty years later, in 1988, the track was re-issued there and became a number 14 hit. In the United States the song"
"Fred Neil Frederick Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly ""Everybody's Talkin'"", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after it was used in the film ""Midnight Cowboy"" in 1969. Though highly regarded by contemporary folk singers, he was reluctant to tour and spent much of the last 30 years of his life assisting with the preservation of dolphins. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in"
"number 5, and remaining on the album charts for 82 weeks. On his fourth album, 'Songs of Our Heritage' (1960), each track featured him playing acoustic guitar or banjo. Eddy's biggest hit came with the theme of the movie ""Because They're Young"" in 1960, which featured a string arrangement, and reached a chart peak of number 4 in America and number 2 in the UK in September 1960. It became his second million-selling disc. Eddy's records were equally successful in the UK and in 1960, readers of the UK's ""NME"" voted him ""World's Number One Musical Personality"", ousting Elvis Presley."
"like ""Say My Name"" in 2000), Kelly Rowland (4 #1 hits like Dilemma in 2002), Kelly Clarkson (3 #1 hits like ""A Moment Like This"" in 2002), rock and roll pioneer Roy Orbison (d.1988) (2 #1 hits like ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" in 1964), country singer Kenny Rogers (2 #1s like ""Islands in the Stream"" in 1983), Christopher Cross (2 #1s like ""Sailing"" in 1980), The Crickets (w/Buddy Holly (d.1959), ""That'll Be the Day"" in 1957), B.J. Thomas (""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" in 1970), Janis Joplin (d.1970) (""Me and Bobby McGee"" in 1971, she attended the University of Texas),"
"Everybody's Somebody's Fool ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" is a song written by Jack Keller and Howard Greenfield that was a No. 1 hit for Connie Francis in 1960. A polka-style version in German, ""Die Liebe ist ein seltsames Spiel"", was the first German single recorded and released by Connie Francis, and it reached No. 1 on the single chart in 1960 in West Germany. ""Everybody's Somebody's Fool"" was written as a bluesy ballad, and the song was recorded at Olmstead Studios (NYC) during the 1960 recording session when Francis cut the song with the Joe Sherman Orchestra. The arrangement performed by"
"Candy Man"" (a US Number One single for Sammy Davis Jr. and the Mike Curb Congregation in 1972) became international hits, Newley had less chart success in the United States as a recording artist, charting on the Billboard Hot 100 with four singles from 1960–62, none reaching higher than number 67. However, he later had a number 12 hit on the Adult Contemporary charts in 1976 with ""Teach the Children"". In the 1970s he remained active, particularly as a Las Vegas and Catskills Borscht Belt resort performer, game show panelist (such as on ""Hollywood Squares"") and talk show guest, but"
"one million copies in eight weeks. Popular artists from the 1980s made successful returns with Duran Duran, The Cure, Depeche Mode and Morrissey releasing top ten singles. After appearing in the reality television show ""I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"", Peter Andre re-released his 1996 hit single ""Mysterious Girl"", this time getting to the top spot. In September and October Eric Prydz ""Call on me"" stayed at number one for five non-consecutive weeks and staying in the chart for a further 14 weeks. In October the music industry mourned the loss of John Peel, the Radio 1 DJ"
"No. 1 hit. The follow-up, ""Day Into Night"" was a Top 10 hit the same year. Owen Bradley took over as Wells' producer in the 1960s. While Bradley did produce some of the biggest-selling country crossover singers of the time period, including Patsy Cline, he did have to record some of what Nashville then called ""The Old-Timers,"" or the ""Honky-Tonkers"" from the 1950s, including Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubb, and Wells. With these singers, including Wells, he steered them all into the new contemporary sound without pushing them out of their limits. Wells' sound changed slightly due to Bradley's influence, incorporating"
"local record store. The ""Dance to the Music"" album went on to decent sales, but the follow-up, ""Life"", was not as successful commercially . In September 1968, the band embarked on its first overseas tour, to England. It was cut short after Graham was arrested for possession of marijuana and because of disagreements with concert promoters. In late 1968, Sly and the Family Stone released the single ""Everyday People"", which became their first No. 1 hit. ""Everyday People"" was a protest against prejudice of all kinds and popularized the catchphrase ""different strokes for different folks"". With its B-side ""Sing a"
"Something for Everybody Something for Everybody is the sixth studio album by American singer and musician Elvis Presley, released on RCA Victor in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2370, in June 1961. Recording sessions took place on November 8, 1960, at Radio Recorders in Hollywood, and on March 12, 1961 at RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. In the United States, it peaked at number 1 on ""Billboard""s Top Pop LPs chart. It was certified Gold on July 15, 1999 by the Recording Industry Association of America. After his military discharge from the army in March 1960, any doubts about Presley's"
"People Everyday ""People Everyday"" is a song by American rap/Hip hop group Arrested Development. It was released in May 1992 as the second single from their debut album ""3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..."" The song peaked at number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""People Everyday"" also becoming their biggest hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1992. The song peaked within the top ten on the charts in Australia, France and New Zealand. It uses the chorus and basic structure of Sly"
"People Everyday ""People Everyday"" is a song by American rap/Hip hop group Arrested Development. It was released in May 1992 as the second single from their debut album ""3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..."" The song peaked at number eight on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""People Everyday"" also becoming their biggest hit in the United Kingdom, where it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart in November 1992. The song peaked within the top ten on the charts in Australia, France and New Zealand. It uses the chorus and basic structure of Sly"
"Be An Old Woman's Baby Than A Young Girl's Slave 1960 538 The Earthquakes This Is Really Real / Crazy Bop (?) 1960 539 Terry Soggs Route 16 / I Dream Of You 1961 540 Floyd Smith w/ The Montclairs Grandpa's Gully Rock / This Is A Miracle 1961 541 The Delteens with the Orbits under direction of Devora Brown Listen To The Rain / Love Me 1961 542 Nathaniel Mayer My Last Dance With You / My Little Darling 1962 543 Robert Preston with Organ Accomp. Trees / I Speak The Truth 1962 544 Nolan Strong and the Diablos"
"songs for many country music singers, since first writing for Ray Price, among others in the late 1950s. He wrote many of country singer Connie Smith's biggest hits in the 1960s, including her best-known song, ""Once a Day,"" which topped off at No. 1 in 1964 and spent eight weeks there, the longest by any female country music singer. He also wrote Smith's ""Cincinnati, Ohio"" in 1967, among others. In 1995, ""Billboard magazine"" named four Anderson compositions—""City Lights,"" ""Once A Day,"" ""Still,"" and ""Mama Sang A Song""—among the top 20 country songs of the past 35 years, more than any"
"the No. 15 ""Doggin' Around"", the No. 1 pop ballad ""Night"", another million-seller, and ""Baby Workout"", another Top 10 hit (No. 5), which he composed with The Midnighters member Alonzo Tucker. His songwriting alliance with Tucker also turned out other songs, including ""No Pity (In The Naked City)"" and ""I'm So Lonely."" Top 10 hits continued with ""Alone At Last"" (No. 8 in 1960) and ""My Empty Arms"" (No. 9 in 1961). Also in 1961, Wilson recorded a tribute album to Al Jolson, ""Nowstalgia ... You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet"", which included the only album liner notes he ever wrote:"
"C'mon Everybody ""C'mon Everybody"" is a 1958 song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart, originally released as a B-side. In 1959 it peaked in the UK (where Cochran had major success and where he died in 1960) at number six in the singles chart, and, thirty years later, in 1988, the track was re-issued there and became a number 14 hit. In the United States the song got to number 35 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""C'mon Everybody"" is ranked number 403 on the ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In Ireland it was"
"'He taught me that everything was music,' Crosby says."" In his memoir, Richie Havens recalled Neil and his then-partner Vince Martin making an entrance through the audience, without microphones, and getting the audience up and clapping by relying only on their harmonious vocals. Fred Neil Frederick Neil (March 16, 1936 – July 7, 2001) was an American folk singer-songwriter in the 1960s and early 1970s. He did not achieve commercial success as a performer and is mainly known through other people's recordings of his material – particularly ""Everybody's Talkin'"", which became a hit for Harry Nilsson after it was used"
"white performers included The Del-Vikings, who hit big in 1957 with ""Come Go With Me"" and ""Whispering Bells"", The Crests, whose ""16 Candles"" appeared in 1958, and The Impalas, whose ""Sorry (I Ran All the Way Home)"" was a hit in 1959. Female doo-wop singers were unusual in the early days. Lillian Leach, lead singer of the Mellows from 1953 to 1958, helped pave the way for other women in doo-wop, soul and R&B. Doo-wop groups achieved 1951 R&B chart hits such as ""Sixty Minute Man"" by Billy Ward and His Dominoes, ""Where Are You?"" by The Mello-Moods, ""The Glory"
"Hot 100 in 1962. In 1960, he produced the latter of his two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, Teen Angel for Mark Dinning. The song Whole Lotta Woman by Marvin Rainwater ended up being a hit in the United Kingdom, and was a number-one hit on the UK singles chart there. He continued to produce music until his retirement in 1989. Jim Vienneau currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee and is retired. He and his wife Joan Preston Vienneau have been married for over 60 years. Jim Vienneau James Francis Vienneau (born September 18, 1926, in Albany, New York) is a"
"she recorded the song, ""Time"", from the film, ""Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"", which she sang during her appearance the same year on the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club show. She married advertising executive Nicolas Teller, February 1965. She now lives in Eastbourne with second husband Nick Leigh, a theatre director. Susan Maughan Susan Maughan (born Marian Maughan, 1 July 1938,) is an English singer who released successful singles in the 1960s. Her most famous and successful song, ""Bobby's Girl"" (a cover of the Marcie Blane single), reached number three in the UK Singles Chart at Christmas time in 1962. It"
"1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in lineup. In the 1970s some artists stood out. Herman Brood became the ultimate Rock 'n Roll icon. He even scored a hit in the US with Saturday Night. He became the epitome of the ""rock'n'roll junkie"" he sang about. As an artist he was in the media until his suicide in 2001. Other bands from the 70s: Pussycat (lead singer Toni Willé) whose song Mississippi hit the charts at number 1 in Netherlands in 1975 and many other countries including UK in 1976, Gruppo Sportivo, Massada, Vitesse, Solution, the Nits, Focus"
"100 pop singles chart for one week, in the final 1969 issue of ""Billboard"" magazine (dated December 27). It would be the last number one hit of the 1960s. The song was written by Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers, and Harvey Fuqua in 1961; and Bristol and Beavers recorded the song together as ""Johnny & Jackey"" for the Tri-Phi label that same year. ""Someday"" was a moderate success in the Midwestern United States, but gained little notice in other venues. Tri-Phi was purchased by Motown in the mid-1960s. Fuqua, Bristol, and Beavers all joined Berry Gordy's by-then famous record company, and"
"somewhat from the attention. The ever-present sunglasses led some people to assume that the stationary performer was blind. His black clothes and the desperation in his songs emanated the image of mystery and introversion. His dark and brooding persona, combined with his tremulous voice in lovelorn ballads marketed to teenagers, made Orbison a star in the early 1960s. His string of top-40 hits continued with ""In Dreams"" (US number seven, UK number six), ""Falling"" (US number 22, UK number 9), and ""Mean Woman Blues"" (US number five, UK number three) coupled with ""Blue Bayou"" (US number 29, UK number three)."
"82. He was survived by his three children and extended family. Joey Powers Joseph S. ""Joe"" Ruggiero (December 7, 1934 – January 20, 2017), who performed as Joey Powers, was an American former pop singer and songwriter whose record ""Midnight Mary"" reached No. 10 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in early January 1964. Powers had no further hits and is known as a ""one hit wonder"". He later became a booking agent, recording studio owner, record producer, and church leader. He was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Washington High School in 1953 and at one time played in"